From whom is the Congo from?
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Kumaoni from Sadhu Seeds via @Upstate. Thanks again for the seeds!
Kumaoni female on 6/1. Stem rub of sour green mango and wood. Very fast growth. A little aphid damaged on the new leaves, had an infestation that I’m just starting to clear up.
Kumaoni male on 6/1. Not the most vigorous male with more a sunflower seed / hemp seed stem rub. Will be keeping around for later pollination in the winter.
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You could be a sweathog…
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The Congo was from @Kidete, owner of East Arfrican Genes. It comes from near the Rwanda border originally.
It’s tough to pin down how exactly this type of genetic made it to East Congo. In recent years Growers from other portions of Congo have moved to the east to evade the law . After growing South Sudan, Uganda Birere and East Congo, and Malawi, I would say Uganda saw Indica genetics longer ago than the East Congo. The plants look similar, but the Indica has been in Uganda longer enough to start growing crazy foxtails off of the somewhat compact kush like frame…This Congo hasn’t gotten that far yet, no crazy long Thai foxtails like Birere, but some buds are completely unlike any kush. They are small groups of flowers making loose, but deceptively dense looking flower. The closer you get to them, the looser they look… until when you are right on top of them you spot purely sativa looking flowers. A different pheno of this same Congo still has dense buds but zero mold, even after the plants were left outside after their flowering term was over. Seeds shatter like Sativas. I find Loose ripe seeds randomly all over the plant with no trace of where they came from. If this Congo had gotten its genetics from the East, it should flower with crazy foxtails, similar to plants from the East…which they really don’t.
So…IMO, these plants are at the point in their genetic change where they still hold their original Kush identity in their plant form and shape, yet they have become “tropical sativas” in both their flowering length and in some phenos, flower density. Average flowering time was 18 weeks. Say 16 or 17- 20 weeks.
There is absolutely nothing modern about this former Indica from East Congo, i assure everyone. This is no Kush from some Greenhouse seeds introduction. This is an old acclimated Kush, imo from the 50’s, but quite possibly influenced from the ancient Indica highway, The Nile, from the East as well… although if that is the case, it happened more recently than it happened in Uganda.
Sorry to go off topic. That super cool picture you dropped got me to thinking.
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I read that ancient Egypt got all their hash from what is now Syria. They supposedly had the best grade in the whole area. Makes sense that the Middle Eastern genetics made their way to the African continent thousands of years ago.
It’s been awhile but I think I got that info from The Great Books of Hashish if anyone wants to learn more about the history
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Not true. The Egyptians wanted the best, so it can from different sources. There are hieroglyphs that show Pygmy African tribes that brought cannabis to the Pharaoh in tribute.
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The Pygmys would be bringing flowers but not hashish. That came from the Middle East. Those tribes have no history of making hash
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That is true, but certainly the Dynasty had hashmakers on site.
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It’s not recorded historically so it’s not known if it was made there or not. There is recorded evidence of the hash importation though
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@vinu58ster My Friend, the planets have aligned and your gift has arrived…
Not had the balls to open it yet, but I send you a Firm high five and a big Hug.
Mine made it to You on the 2nd attempt;
And this is now Full-Circle!
Humbly
I’ve got some research to do @vinu58ster Yowza and Many Thanks
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I hope that some of these can grow in other areas or are small for indoor so we can get more good Indian genetics out to the masses.
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Definitely not small but will grow anywhere and indoors 
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thanks again for being awesome!
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Check this out and start from page 97. Cannabis and Culture - Knihy Google
While it seems Congo got weed in 1850’s from Swahili traders out of Zanzibar, it later says that Arab traders introduced “Indian hemp” to Tanzania and they became addicted to smoking it. Tanzania borders Congo so it makes sense that there’s Indian genetics in Congolese weed!
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here is the whole book
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Thank you so much for posting that book. I love to read anything that I can find about pot. History, trade, local cultural traditions ect…. 
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my pleasure
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Correction: second plant is a female, just very late flowering under 11/13 and displaying the same natural branching structure i saw with the Tosh Valley male last year. The sunflower seed / hemp seed stem rub preflower was also very similar to all the crosses with the Tosh Valley male I made last year that I tested this year.
First plant also started to take on anthocyanins on stem after flip so the earlier flowering one could be one of the purple Kumaoni plants I’ve heard about. I’m optimistic I’ll be able to get the first one to finish outdoors since its a Himalayan cultivar and I’ve pushed plants into December, but not so much about the second one. I’ll try to flower it outside and take clones.
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Interesting. I think they speak of Bekka Valkey here, which today goes between Lebanon and Syria. I suppose I should say it runs from Lebanon into Syria or vice versa ) Formerly Lebanon had been known as greater Syria and long ago before that as Phoenicia.
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